An automated run of parserTests.php showed the following failures:
Running test BUG 361: URL within URL, not bracketed... FAILED!
Running test External links: invalid character... FAILED!
Running test Bug 2702: Mismatched <i> and <a> tags are invalid... FAILED!
Running test A table with no data.... FAILED!
Running test A table with nothing but a caption... FAILED!
Running test Link containing "#<" and "#>" % as a hex sequences... FAILED!
Running test Magic links: PMID incorrectly converts space to underscore... FAILED!
Running test Template with thumb image (wiht link in description)... FAILED!
Running test Link to image page... FAILED!
Running test BUG 1887: A ISBN with a thumbnail... FAILED!
Running test BUG 1887: A <math> with a thumbnail... FAILED!
Running test BUG 561: {{/Subpage}}... FAILED!
Running test Simple category... FAILED!
Running test Section headings with TOC... FAILED!
Running test Media link with nasty text... FAILED!
Running test Bug 2095: link with pipe and three closing brackets... FAILED!
Running test Sanitizer: Validating the contents of the id attribute (bug 4515)... FAILED!
Passed 268 of 285 tests (94.04%) FAILED!
I've noticed a number of attempts by editors to push links to their
websites into talk pages, where they are much less likely to be removed
or <nowiki>'d than links in articles. I understand the reason for not
having rel=nofollow in the article space; however, I can't see any
reason not to have rel=nofollow applied to links to sites outside
Wikipedia in talk pages, which would stop rewarding this behaviour.
The alternative of removing or <nowiki>ing these links, is both
time-consuming and counter-productive, as it prevents all links from
being followed, not just abusive ones, and putting all talk pages in
robots.txt would be even more counter-productive by preventing any
external indexing of talk pages.
-- Neil
An automated run of parserTests.php showed the following failures:
Running test BUG 361: URL within URL, not bracketed... FAILED!
Running test External links: invalid character... FAILED!
Running test Bug 2702: Mismatched <i> and <a> tags are invalid... FAILED!
Running test A table with no data.... FAILED!
Running test A table with nothing but a caption... FAILED!
Running test Link containing "#<" and "#>" % as a hex sequences... FAILED!
Running test Magic links: PMID incorrectly converts space to underscore... FAILED!
Running test Template with thumb image (wiht link in description)... FAILED!
Running test Link to image page... FAILED!
Running test BUG 1887: A ISBN with a thumbnail... FAILED!
Running test BUG 1887: A <math> with a thumbnail... FAILED!
Running test BUG 561: {{/Subpage}}... FAILED!
Running test Simple category... FAILED!
Running test Section headings with TOC... FAILED!
Running test Media link with nasty text... FAILED!
Running test Bug 2095: link with pipe and three closing brackets... FAILED!
Running test Sanitizer: Validating the contents of the id attribute (bug 4515)... FAILED!
Passed 268 of 285 tests (94.04%) FAILED!
Hi,
Is there any easy way of excluding pages with category links in
Special:Lonelypages? (i.e., if a page is a member of a category,
chances are it's not orphaned, even if it has no _direct_ links.)
I don't remember ever seeing this come up on the mailing lists, but
it sounds like an obvious question...
-Patrick
Hoi,
A long time ago, I have worked hard creating teaching material for
people to learn Farsi. Farsi or Persian is the language spoken in
Iran. The material was the material used by a teacher that I know.
The material was created at http://wikibooks.org/wiki/Farsi. It was in
the days when everything was still there. The original material had
one basic flaw; it was written left to right while Farsi is written
from left to right. While working on this material, it struck me that
it is really sad that you have to create teaching material that is as
basic as this for every language.
As we were creating the concepts for what was called "Ultimate
Wiktionary" but what is currently known as WiktionaryZ, it came to me
that we should not have the Dutch words there as the translation for
the Farsi content, but that we should have the translation of the
Farsi words in the language of the student. This would mean that
everybody can use the material.
Today I was asked by someone where the Farsi lessons were, somebody
actually wants to use it.. This means that all this effort had people
use it... It meant that all the pronunciations were going to be
listened to... The material is not there anymore .. it is not useful
anymore ..
I do not doubt that the people who worked on it intended well, but at
this moment it is not Farsi / Dutch, it is not Farsi / English it is
certainly unusable.
The timing could have been worse; Brion is busy with the integration
of the namespace manager. It is therefore possible to have pages in
the fa.wikibooks that are specific for the Dutch language and pages
specific for the English language. Alternatively we could have a
namespace for Farsi content in the nl.wikibooks. This would mean
however that we should be able to have a namespace that is oriented in
a different direction from the other namespaces in a database. I do
not know if we can do this already, I am sure however that we will
want something like this for the right to left languages like Farsi in
WiktionaryZ.
Now there is one practical question remaining; what will we do with
the Farsi lessons in the fa.wikibooks that were originally intended to
teach Dutch people Farsi.
Thanks,
GerardM
I wonder why the Captcha autentication is required during registration
on Italian Wikinews.
An user has complained that he/she was not able to see the image.
I have done some test and sometime the page hangs up.
On the same subject:
What is the precedure that shuld be followed by impared people who can
not see the image?
AnyFile
Hi,
About a year ago I requested a new language (!) it's still not set up, there
are about a dozen of new approved languages awaiting set up. When will there
be some new activity in the set up of new languages? The new languages which
were lastly introduced are functioning perfectly and have some good
articles. I wonder should the page "request a new language" page not even be
deleted, it's just standing there...
Serv
Good Morning Everyone! :o)
I have what I hope is an interesting problem to someone reading this. I
have been put in charge of creating a web site for my sons pre-school. In
order to get everything up and running quickly, I installed MediaWiki. It
works great and everyone is creating web pages and editing them. I've very
quickly created bigger site then I ever thought I could do on my own. It's
still not quite what they had in mind, but the content is mostly finished
now.
I've looked at putting all the text over into other CMS programs, but
everything I've tried so far is just horrible to edit and/or administer.
Some don't have what I want, or others like Mambo are just so complex I
would be stuck making every change.
The problem I have is that the Wiki site doesn't provide any hierarchical
navigation. They want the ease of editing the Wiki, but with custom top and
left side navigation menus per page. They also want to take away the edit
menus until users login, and move them to the left side when people do
login. I have seen skins that move it to the left side so I know it can be
done.
I've started looking at the code - version 1.5.6. Right now I think what I
want could be accomplished through templates and CSS. I think something
like {{top_menu}} and {{left_menu}} that creates a div, span, or table...
then move that table around using CSS. Then I think I need to have a custom
skin to put do all the right CSS stuff.
That seems like a lot of work and it also starts mixing "magic" wiki
templates to custom CSS styles that only work with certain skins which just
doesn't feel right. I think it would work, but I'm not sure it's the Best
Way. I've considered adding custom wiki tags too, but that also seems very
involved. I will do that however if it is the Correct Way to do things.
Can any of you brilliant people out there point me to an extension or skin
that will accomplish what I'm trying to do? I am a programmer by trade so
get as technical as you like. I just don't know the MediaWiki thought
structure and design yet. Any and all feedback or suggestions are
appreciated.
Thank you for taking the time to read this far, I hope you'll take a minute
more to offer any assistance if you are able. Regardless have a wonderful
day.
Thank you,
- Russ Ryba
Hoi,
Today, the bot that I run has passed the 100.000 edit marks on the
English Wiktionary. This is a result that is nice but still, I have very
much mixed feelings about it. It is a good thing because having the
interwiki links on Wiktionary promotes cooperation. The bad sentiment is
because it is such a waste of resources. For Wiktionary it is not that
bad; I just run the bot and it is process that is largely automatic. I
do check every now and again, sometimes the software is updated and that
does merit some checking.
For Wikipedia the situation is in my opinion more bleak. Many people
spend a lot of effort in getting the interwiki links right. Where the
Wiktionary process is a simple automatic process, the Wikipedia
interwiki is a laborious affair. It is also a process where we know that
a change because of some disambiguation is only done after some time.
Many of the smaller wikipedia projects do not have people working on the
interwiki links and it is here where the interwiki links would be most
valuable.
It has been argued in the past that some innovation for the interwiki
process is needed. There are some suggestions on Meta...
Oh yes, the Wiktionary process allows me to update concurrently on MANY
wiktionaries. When you add up all the updates that RobotGMwikt has done,
it could be something like 250.000+. Then again, I do not care that much
about such statistics. It is just an indicator for the need for innovation.
Thanks,
GerardM